Linux-Setup Digest #271, Volume #19 Sat, 29 Jul 00 12:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (brian moore)
KPPP problem (Matthias Kempa)
Re: apache UserDir question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: new modem - aaaaack!!! (Rob Clark)
Re: Changing SCSI Cards - Boot Error Messages - SuSE 6.4 (kf)
Re: Kernel Panic Error (Frank Hahn)
Re: Sound card problem (Fantod)
help needed with a pcmpci modem (michele)
lost commands ("Bryan Bitzer")
mouse problem x-windows (pepe)
Cannoy detect network card on Redhat 6.2 ("Denis L. Menezes")
Re: Redhat 6.2 kernel panic on boot ("D. C. & M. V. Sessions")
Re: How to remove LILO (Chiefy)
Re: USB compactflash readers? (Rod Smith)
Re: apache UserDir question (Scott Beckman)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 29 Jul 2000 08:23:39 GMT
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000 00:20:16 -0700,
blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> brian moore wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:47:24 -0700,
> > blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Red Hat is a sinking ship?
> > >
> > > Red Hat's CFO is abandoning ship.
> >
> > Or he got a better offer. Or he likes California more than North
> > Carolina.. or lots of things.
> >
> > > http://www.it-director.com/00-07-28-3.html
> >
> > Gads, you get business analysis from an IT trade rag? That's akin to
> > using Penthouse as a dating guide.
> >
> No. Wall Street told me RH is a sinking ship.
A place?
> Have you ever wonder why Bob Young dumped almost half of his shares of
> RH right before
> the RH shares hit below ground zero?
Let's see, 6 months (I wonder if that's a magic number? nah, couldn't
be... that would be too obvious) to the day after the IPO, Mr Young
cashed in some of his shares. Nowhere near half of them, though. God
forbid he should benefit from his business.
I don't see any other notices of Mr Young selling his shares. I do
see that he gave 140k shares to someone as a gift on April 21, 2000.
(Pretty nice gift, eh?)
As for "below ground zero", they're trading at above what they IPO'd
for. (Not what speculators drove the price to, but what they and their
underwriters determined was a fair price for equity.)
Considering that Microsoft is at about 60% or so of what they were at a
year ago, I'd say that's pretty good.
> And why Bill Gates (yes, the Microsoft's CEO Gates.) filed at the FTC to
> dump almost $500million worth of RH shares shartly after Bob Young
> dumped his?
>
> Why Bill Gates owns so much of RH? How much more RH shares Gates still
> owns?
Because Gates has a lot of money and invests it in a lot of things?
Of course, typical of your nonsense, Gates didn't sell $500M worth of RH
stock. He doesn't own that much. He sold $450k worth of stock.
Cascade Investment, LLC owns roughly 4 million shares of RH stock. At
$18/share, that's, what, $72M total? RedHat has roughly 157M shares of
stock outstanding. So Cascade had as much as, what, 2.5% of it?
Last I checked, owning stock in a company didn't give you control of
their day to day operations, especially when it's only 2.5%.
> > Get a clue.
> >
> Vi messed up your head!?
Nope. Has trying to use Netscape for usenet messed up yours?
> I read WSJ, Barrons and Forbe for financial news.
Uh-huh. But you didn't choose to look this up in any of them?
When you are as -wrong- as you are about the "$500million worth of RH
shares" that Gates supposedly sold, why would anyone trust your other
"facts"? Being off by a factor of 1000 is a sign you should actually
-read- the journals you claim to read.
Look, if you don't like RedHat (I don't), at least use -valid- reasons
to criticize them. Don't just make up bullshit: it makes you look
stupid. Complain about their lack of quality review, complain about
the chaos that contrib RPMs create, complain about their bizarre ideas
of how the file heirarchy works. But as long as you continue to post
blatant lies, you will continue to come across as a raving lunatic.
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: Matthias Kempa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KPPP problem
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 10:25:28 +0200
Hi,
I have SuSE 6.4 running and I use KPPP to get into
the internet.
But since I use SuSE 6.4 it doesnt work well.
Often KPPP freezes when it tries to get an internetconnection.
So I have to kill the process and have to try again till it
works.
This problem didnt show up when I used SuSE 6.1 or 6.3
Did anyone have the same problem and can help me??
Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: redhat.config
Subject: Re: apache UserDir question
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 09:14:21 GMT
If you didn't delete the section in your default httpd.conf file,
there is a section that is already setup for ~user directory access.
All you have to do is remove the comments and correct the directory
reference to suit your server.
I suggest that you do as the install directions, FAQ and website
suggests.... look through the httpd.conf file to become familar with
the configuration for your server. The file itself is well documented
and you would have learned that access.conf and srm.conf are not used
anymore. All of the access.conf and srm.conf entries are embedded
within httpd.conf.
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:31:18 -0500, Scott Beckman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm new to Apache and am stumped as to how to get the
>http://my.compter.com/~user to refer to /home/user/www/index.html
>
>I've set in srm.conf:
>
> UserDir /home/*/www
>
>In access.conf I've set
>
> <Directory /home/*/www>
> Order Deny,Allow
> Allow from All
>
> Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
>
> AllowOverride None
>
> order allow,deny
> allow from all
>
> </Directory>
>
>Then I restarted the server with the command
>
> apachectl restart
>
>and received no warnings
>
>Then I've written a short file for /home/user/index.html and changed the
>permissions with
>
> chmod 777 -R /home/user/www
>
>When I try http://my.compter.com/~user
>
>I'm given a page showing, "You are not authorized to view this page"
>
>So what am I forgetting? I've read through the manual several times,
>but can't seem to find the mistake in my work.
>
>Thanks for your time,
>Scott
>--
>====================================================
>Scott Beckman
>
>University of California at Berkeley
>Material Science and Mineral Engineering Department
>577 Evans Hall #1760
>Berkeley, CA 94720-1760
>
>e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>=====================================================
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Subject: Re: new modem - aaaaack!!!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 09:58:10 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have just installed a U.S.Robotics 56K Voice Faxmodem, model #
>00568500 (I had checked at a website (~gromitk?) that it would work).
[..]
>The new modem installed properly initially, and I was able to run pppd
>in the command mode, and in X Window, using Kppp. The next day, when
>I next fired up Linux and tried to go online, the modem was found to
>be busy.
Do you have the version of the 5685-00 that is jumperless (requiring that
you use isapnptools)? If so, did you put something in your init scripts
to handle that? E.g., in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local, I have:
/sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
setserial /dev/modem uart 16550A
Just an idea,
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: kf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Changing SCSI Cards - Boot Error Messages - SuSE 6.4
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 07:31:41 -0400
blowfish wrote:
>
> Kevin Adams wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Creating a new initial ramdisk did the trick. Thanks for the info.
> >
> > Although I do have one more question - look at my *new* boot messages (below) -
> > is "enable_irq() unbalanced" something I should be worried about?
> >
> In YaST or YaST2. There's an option called add new hardware. ;-)
Could you elaborate a bit more, please. I'm also having some difficulty getting my
SCSI card to work on Mandrake 7.1.
>
> Alex / blowfish
>
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >
> > <5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> > <4>Uncompressing........................done.
> > <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> > <6>(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/9/0
> > <6>(scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs
> > <6>(scsi0) Warning - detected auto-termination
> > <6>(scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are correct.
> > <6>(scsi0) If not, then please properly set the device termination
> > <6>(scsi0) in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted
> > <6>(scsi0) during machine bootup.
> > <6>(scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 NO)
> > <6>(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 415 instructions downloaded
> >
> > <4>enable_irq() unbalanced from d000ea36
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > |
> > +-------- Should I be worried about this?
> >
> > <4>scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.25/3.2.4
> > <4> <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter>
> > <4>scsi : 1 host.
> > <6>(scsi0:0:5:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
> > <4> Vendor: iomega Model: jaz 1GB Rev: J.83
> > <4> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > <4>Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
> > <6>(scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
> > <4> Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-R CW-7502 Rev: 4.10
> > <4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > <4>Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
> > <4>sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 8x/8x writer xa/form2 cdda tray
> > <4>SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2091050 [1021 MB] [1.0 GB]
> > <4>sda: Write Protect is off
> > <4> sda: sda4
> > <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> >
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Kevin Adams
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
My recommendation: Don't do business with Explorer Micro
of Worthington, Ohio.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic Error
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 12:10:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000 01:18:06 +0100, Terry Chilvers(FreeServe)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[Snipped]
>kmod:failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s-k block-major-8,errno=2
>VFS:cannot open root device 08:21
>Kernel Panic:VFS:unable to mount root fs on 08:21
>
I would try a search of http://www.deja.com for the above error
message if you have not already done that.
Typically, I believe it means that you have given the wrong
root drive location to either lilo or loadlin. That is, these
programs believe the root filesystem is in one location but
it is actually in another.
Another p[ossibility is that the driver for the root filesystem
has been compiled as a module and not compiled into the kernel.
The kernel tries to mount the drive but can't because the driver
for the drive cannot be read from the drive.
Hope the above makes some sense.
Like I said earlier, just search http://www.deja.com for more and
possibility better answers.
--
Frank Hahn
Consultants are mystical people who ask a company for a number and then
give it back to them.
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Subject: Re: Sound card problem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fantod)
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 12:14:18 GMT
[]:
>I'm having a problem getting my sound card (Creative Labs Sound
>Blaster 16C PnP) to work on my system (Debian Linux. Kernel
>2.2.14. Dell Dimension XPS T550). this machine is a dual boot
>NT/Linux.
I have a similar setup (Dimension XPS D300, Slack7.1). This worked
for me:
Add this to rc.modules in place of the "sb" line that may already be
there:
/sbin/modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
/sbin/modprobe opl3 io=0x388
or
lsmod
modprobe -r (everything sound related)
/sbin/modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
/sbin/modprobe opl3 io=0x388
I noticed that the Slackware rc.modules used the wrong dma values and
did not use op13.
I noticed in another answer to this thread, Gene Wiggins recommends
insmod mpu401
I have not tried that, but will.
--
Patrick Phelan
w____\\W//___w Te Hupenui
Don't look under the bed now: an arm, a leg, a severed head.
http://copeland.choicelogic.com/~phelan/
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From: michele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: help needed with a pcmpci modem
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 12:36:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I'm trying to install Linux on my Dell Latitude CPx laptop.
Everything is fine except that I can't get the modem to work.
The modem is a "RealPort 2 CardBus Modem 56 Win-GlobalACCESS"
and when the pcmpci support gets loaded during the boot the modem
gets locked up (red light on and "modem is busy" message from
kppp if you try to use it).
Any idea about how to set it up?
Thanks in advance for your time
Michele
(p.s. the reply address is correct)
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Bryan Bitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lost commands
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 09:10:21 -0400
I think that I removed the dir /lib/modules and would like to reinstall it.
How? Also, The commands : make, install, depmod and modprobe are not
working. How do i put these commands back and where do they go?
Linux 6.2 (Red Hat) 2.2.14-5.0
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Subject: mouse problem x-windows
From: pepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 06:52:49 -0700
Hi, I have a problem, I have installed Linux (debian) in my
computer, I have configured X-window and my mouse (A4 tech
neteasy) isn�t work, I have tried to change XF86Config but
nothing happens. Anybody knows what�s happen?, may it be a
driver problem?.
Thanks
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From: "Denis L. Menezes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cannoy detect network card on Redhat 6.2
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 22:38:23 +0800
Hello friends.
I have installed Redhat 6.2. But my 3Com network card is not seen. Can
anybody advise me how I can add this to the hardware?
Thanks
Denis
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From: "D. C. & M. V. Sessions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.2 kernel panic on boot
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 07:51:38 -0700
Cory Root wrote:
>
> Mitch Martinez wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >I had this very same problem, it turns out I had to remove the
> >append=mem 512 line in my /etc/lilo.conf This was only for the RH6.2
> >ver... I wished I'd figgered this out BEFORE I reinstalled .....
>
> This looks like the problem I am having. Similar computer, running
> Mandrake-Linux 6.1. How does one edit the config file if it's blowing
> chunks on the boot?
>
> Also, I get this error when booting from the install CD for SuSE 6.2. Any
> ideas how to make the installation run?
I know it sounds strange, but it seems to be a CD-ROM problem.
*Apparently*, the installer has a problem with read error recovery.
This isn't for sure, but I've tried using both Red Hat official
and Cheapbytes CDs. The RH disk panics, the CB doesn't. But when
I move to a system with a really good CD-ROM drive they both work.
What's funny is that I don't need any help from RH, just want to
report the bug. But their system won't let me report bugs w/o
registration, and they insist on more demographics than I want to
provide. So there they sit without a bug report.
--
| Bogus as it might seem, people, this really is a deliverable |
| e-mail address. Of course, there isn't REALLY a lumber cartel. |
| There isn't really a tooth fairy, but whois toothfairy.com works. |
+----------- D. C. & M. V. Sessions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------+
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Subject: Re: How to remove LILO
Date: 29 Jul 2000 14:51:59 GMT
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 14:52:14 GMT, Tony Tremblay did say to the dudes:
[snip]
>Now running back Win98 since last night after a year of Linux, and it feels
>really really really bad. Windows crashed 5 times after only 20 minutes it
>was installed.
Been there done that, and I can beat 5 times in 20 minutes!.
LGB
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: USB compactflash readers?
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 14:57:26 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8lsoc7$vv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi, all. I'm getting ready to dedicate a 166MHz Intel box to storing,
> manipulating, viewing, and uploading digital photographs. I've got a
> copy of RedHat 6.1 that I'd like to use, but I am curious as to whether
> I'll be able to run USB ports (still need to buy the USB card...).
> Basically, I'd like to house a large-ish hard drive in the box and read
> the memory cards for the camera using a "USB photoreader." Does this
> sound do-able under Linux/Gnome?
It *MIGHT* be. Check http://www.linux-usb.org for a list of USB devices
that're supported under Linux 2.3.x and later kernels. Some disk and
disk-like devices are supported, but I don't know if any USB card
readers are. (If a device isn't listed, it means that nobody's tried it
and reported it back to the list maintainers; it might or might not
work.) At the very least, you'll need to run a 2.3.x or later kernel, or
patch a 2.2.x kernel with USB support code.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: Scott Beckman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config
Subject: Re: apache UserDir question
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 07:32:21 -0500
Thanks for your responses,
I needed change the permissions with
chmod 755 /home/user
I had my default set to permissions 750
When I first started with this server I had thought that I'd have
multiple user groups, but since then have changed my mind so using a
permission of 755 shouldn't really hurt anything.
==========
There were two comments about srm and access not being used any more.
Is this true? When did it change? I installed RH 6.0 last september
and this apache configuration is what I received with all three files.
Is it just a matter of copying everything from the access.conf and
srm.conf to the httpd.conf file? What is the advantage, aside from
ease of maintenance? Is there a security advantage?
Scott
Scott Beckman wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to Apache and am stumped as to how to get the
> http://my.compter.com/~user to refer to /home/user/www/index.html
>
> I've set in srm.conf:
>
> UserDir /home/*/www
>
> In access.conf I've set
>
> <Directory /home/*/www>
> Order Deny,Allow
> Allow from All
>
> Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
>
> AllowOverride None
>
> order allow,deny
> allow from all
>
> </Directory>
>
> Then I restarted the server with the command
>
> apachectl restart
>
> and received no warnings
>
> Then I've written a short file for /home/user/index.html and changed the
> permissions with
>
> chmod 777 -R /home/user/www
>
> When I try http://my.compter.com/~user
>
> I'm given a page showing, "You are not authorized to view this page"
>
> So what am I forgetting? I've read through the manual several times,
> but can't seem to find the mistake in my work.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Scott
> --
> ====================================================
> Scott Beckman
>
> University of California at Berkeley
> Material Science and Mineral Engineering Department
> 577 Evans Hall #1760
> Berkeley, CA 94720-1760
>
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> =====================================================
--
====================================================
Scott Beckman
University of California at Berkeley
Material Science and Mineral Engineering Department
577 Evans Hall #1760
Berkeley, CA 94720-1760
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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